Talking Back: Questions sent to us
regarding other methods of production
by other websties

On occasion I receive emails asking for me to either compare our
production method with another method of home colloidal silver
production, or to reply to another site that is affirming negatively
about our method.

When I receive more than one email about a specific method, I
decide to respond to it to the best of my knowledge here.

You will see that I don't have experience with many of the
methods and claims that are on other websites out there.

First of all, why would I research claims about other methods
when what we are doing here produces the highest quality, stable
colloidal silver available in home production?

Secondly, I don't have the time and don't wish to expend the
financial resources to find out if the claims on other sites are
correct or not. I am quite content with the tests conducted on the
colloidal silver produced by our generators, the years of successful
colloidal silver production, and the level of our own health as a
family.

If you've spent any time online researching and reading all about
colloidal silver and colloidal silver home production, you have no
doubt discovered that conflict and controversy are everywhere
regarding this topic. This is rather sad for us, because you'll read
that one home production method is superior to all others, that even
all other methods are bogus and ineffective. (The guy with the
"magnetic stirring" device comes to mind.) You'll even read on some
sites that home production of colloidal silver is impossible! You'll
read attack after attack, while each espouses their own method as
the "only" method, and why all others are inferior.

Saddest of all, to us, is a very prominent "scientific" site that
quite convincingly tells us that everything we're doing at home to
produce colloidal silver is impossible and worthless. You must
understand that this "science" site is merely a site that promotes
their own very, very expensive product called Mesosilver. (They will
sell you this brown-colored product for $25 for an 8 oz bottle.)
This particular site has some good information (I've even used and
attributed some information from them with regard to some issues
below). But much of their information is pseudo-scientific, and has been called out as such by the
lab
scientists of other commercial colloidal silver retailers. Also, much of the "science" site's information is simply
counter-intuitive to many of us who have been successfully producing
colloidal silver at home, and for those who retail colloidal silver
online. I do reference their errors in several of the topics covered
below.

So, in an effort to respond to the questions of site visitors, I
have posted many of them here, with my replies:

What method do you have for currency limits?
How do you deal with "runaway" currency?

This is a topic that seems to be the most recent, and one that has apparently been very convincing because
I have been contacted about it frequently over the past months. (I
dealt with this topic below briefly when I was first contacted about
it a while back. I was just contacted again, so I'm devoting a
little more space to it here.)

As with other topics, to us this is another "non issue." It is irrelevant to the end result of stable, extremely
high quality, incredibly effective colloidal silver production with our method.

This is an instance wherein a phenomenon of the production process has been decided
as somehow "negative" and
has therefore perceived to have a negative result on the quality of your end product.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

It's a ploy of everyone from politicians to cable tv commercial retailers: Identify an issue that you decide
is a negative one. In other words, "create a problem" that is non-existent. Then, "save the day" by remedying
the new "problem." It's all about selling. In this case, it's all about so convincingly establishing a problem that
no one doubts the "problem" exists. And then become the knight in shining armor, and
"solve" the fake problem.

Because our colloidal silver has been lab-tested, and has been
shown to produce 1nm to 2nm size particles after set amounts of
production time, what difference does currency, whether it increases
or not, actually make? It's the end result that you should focus on.
I can't stress this enough. To inflate aspects of a successful
production process into distracting issues to sell something, to us,
is ridiculous. I just invite you to keep your perspective. If you
are producing stable, effective, highest quality colloidal silver at
home with a method that cost you an initial investment of about $65,
why would you allow yourself to become distracted by something that
doesn't matter in the long run?

I've heard that you shouldn't be bringing the air from your environment into the production of your colloidal
silver because of the risk of outside contaminants

Really? Are you kidding me?

Look. If you're concerned that the air that you breathe in your home could be contaminating your colloidal
silver for the few hours it takes for production, you need to move. The house you are living in is obviously
too toxic for you and your family to be there.

I've heard that bubbling the water to
create agitation only creates silver oxide, and that it will revert
to ionic silver within 7 days

This seems to be a prevalent teaching of websites working to sell
their own (much higher priced) colloidal silver generators, and
found on the "science" site I've been mentioning throughout this
page.

We have done our own tests on our own product over time.

Here are the results:

Using a Hanna PWT meter (which ONLY measures ionic silver), we
found that the ionic silver reading may or may not increase by as
much as 5% over 7 days from the day of
production. In other words, if I am getting a PWT reading of 20ppm
at the completion of my colloidal silver production, I may or may
not get a 21ppm within 1 week.

We deliberately allowed the samples sent for TEM testing (see
above) to age 15 days prior to shipping them to the testing lab, to
find out if all the silver particles reverted back to ionic silver.
The tests were conducted when the samples were 21 days old.

As you will read and view above, agitating the water in the manner we recommend (with an inexpensive, low-volume aquarium pump) creates a high amount of
small-particle colloidal silver particles (measuring 1nm to 2nm in size),
even though there are claims elsewhere that there should be no
silver particles remaining after a number of days. Very large numbers of
small-particle silver populate our samples.

Any silver oxide particles (a normal by-product of
production) will settle to the bottom of your storage jar
because of their weight, thus falling out of suspension, and not
measurable in any tests.

So, you may or may not see a 20ppm product contain a
21ppm reading after 7 days. At that point, your collodial silver solution will have stablized
and will remain constant over time.

I've read that colloidal silver simply
must have
a color,
or it is not "true colloidal silver"?

This question relates to websites that insist that true colloidal
silver must have a color. They say that if a product is colorless,
it is simply not colloidal silver.

This again is from the "science" website, and is one of those
counter-intuitive statements that simply does not make sense. And
again, we must realize that this site is promoting their own
product, which is very dark brown in color.

We have been producing colloidal silver in the manner described
on this site since 2008. In all cases, we experience an extremely
clear end product at the 12ppm to 30ppm level. If we produce higher
ppm solutions after longer production times, the product takes on a
slightly white tint. This very light tint remains even after weeks
and months after production. (In other words, it does not "settle
out" or dissipate.)

We feel that we are able to dispute the claims of the "science
site" regarding product color with 2 lines of argument.

The first line of argument: The previously
mentioned article by the company Hydrosol, within the
article mentioned above, actually tests the brown Mesosilver
product. The University of Miami discovered particles as small as
5.5nm, but extremely large particles within their product (as large
as 450nm) which accounts for the color of their product.

You will also notice again in the images of our own tests that
the product derived by not agitating the water has both an amber
color, and in TEM tests visible contains very large clusters of
silver.

The second line of argument: Mesosilver (the
dark brown product) is produced with reverse osmosis water (I read
this on their website) and not pure steam-distilled water. This is
extremely alarming. Why? Because of the problems with bonding that
can occur with foreign elements in the water and silver during the
production process. I have received many letters from customers who
are horrified to see the end result of their production period
produce a dark and/or cloudy end result. This is invariably because
of tainted distilled water, or distilled water sold in grocery
stores that is not in fact pure. (See the image below submitted by a
customer who attempted to produce colloidal silver with tainted or
questionable distilled water.)

The cloudiness and dark color you are viewing are
compounds that you will not be able to identify, generated during
the production process. The only way you will be able to know what
compounds exist is through lab testing. Given you have no idea what
these compounds in fact are, you have no idea if they will
negatively affect you if you consume them internally or apply them externally.

It is far simpler and easier to dump the product you have,
and purchase another gallon of distilled water. If you continue
generating the same types of results, search out and
locate a higher quality steam-distilled water product. Even if you
are paying 5x of 10x the price of the grocery store distilled water,
you will still be saving a fortune by producing colloidal silver
yourself (especially given the going rate these days is $25 for a
1/2 pint!).

The truth about reverse osmosis water:

I am so often asked if reverse osmosis water, zero water,
purified water, etc are appropriate to use in colloidal silver
production that I decided to post below the manufacturer's test
results of reverse osmosis water generated by their own equipment.
(These results are from
NorthStar, a water treatment product
manufacturer who produces equipment that I have sold in my career
job for over 20 years. They privately label most Home Depot, Lowe's
and Sears products also. The numbers in the chart below were
provided by NorthStar technical support for their home reverse
osmosis equipment.)

Below is a list of percentages of reductions of potential water
contaminants achieved through reverse osmosis, with remaining
percentages of contaminants still existing in the water:

Remember that the remaining percentages of contaminants are
still in
the water. These contaminants are potential for harmful compounds that
could be generatored and/or could bond with silver during the colloidal
silver production process.
Reverse Osmosis water is not pure, and is not suitable under any
cirumstances for use in colloidal silver production.

Amonia: 90%
10% remaining

Barium: 96%
4% remaining

Chlorine: 99%
1% remaining

Copper: 99%
1% remaining

Bicarbonate: 65%
35% remaining

Fluoride: 91%
9% remaining

Cadmium: 99%
1% remaining

Chromium: 99%
1% remaining

Lead: 99%
1% remaining

Magnesium: 97%
3% remaining

Nitrate: 76%
24% remaining

Sulfate: 93%
7% remaining

Mercury: 97%
3% remaining

Selenium: 96%
4% remaining

Tannin: 97%
3% remaining

Nickel: 84%
26% remaining

Sodium: 86%
24% remaining

Zinc: 96%
4% remaining

Conclusion: For safety and efficacy and quality of use, simply do not consume or
apply
colloidal silver products, produced by yourself or a retailer, that
do not use steam distilled water in the production process.

A whole group of questions regarding other production methods:

1.
I've read that using a "reducing agent" is necessary to make high quality colloidal silver.
Is this true?
2.
I've read that "runaway current" is an issue with basic low-voltage transformers during the production process.
Is this bad?
3. I've read that alternating the electric polarity of the rods is
important. Is it?
4. I've read that bubbling the water does nothing to the colloidal
silver, but that "magnetically stirring" the water is the best way.

There are SO many objections and issues that will attempt to distract you from the
real issue of home production of colloidal silver.

So, what is the real issue?

We, and all the websites that discuss these varied issues are motivated by the same thing:to create the highest
quality colloidal silver at home. We know that our system, simple and incredibly inexpensive, accomplishes
that, for a very small investment. And we have the independent lab tests to prove it.
While I am sure that all the other methods you're finding online
will produce varying levels of quality of colloidal silver, for
prices as much as $1000 per unit, we can sleep at night knowing that
our system will provide you with the highest-quality colloidal
silver available in home production available today. And at the best
price!

Responses to the above questions:
1. From what I understand, a "reducing agent" is supposed to
"reduce" the particle size of the colloidal silver during
production. Our process accomplishes 1nm to 2nm in particle size
based on independent lab tests. A reducing agent is not required.
Plus, I am not comfortable adding any other substance to the
production process because of the dangers of those elements
potentially bonding with silver, producing potentially harmful
additional ingredients.
2. "Runaway current," while portrayed as a big negative, has always
been a part of colloidal home production. As I understand it, it
simply means that production of ppm of colloid content increases
exponentially through longer production times. We've always
understood that process. Agitating the water continues the
production of 1nm to 2nm sized particles, even if current increases.
So we really don't regard this as an issue affecting the quality of
your colloidal silver.
3. "Alternating polarity of the silver rods." I was told that
changing polarity every few minutes between the silver rods might
reduce the production of silver oxide. And that it might extend the
life of your silver rods. Silver oxide is a by-production of
production with electricity, and is unavoidable. Silver oxide
content is based on the level of voltage and length of production
time. I suppose if you are sharing the silver oxide on both rods
instead of one, it will appear that there is a reduction in silver
oxide production. Regardless, shared silver oxide or not,
alternating the polarity appears to have nothing to do with the
quality of colloidal silver using our production method.
4. Honestly, I don't understand the method behind "magnetic
stirring" but they are incorrect in regarding the issue of agitating
the water with an air bubbler as being ineffective. The test results
on our FAQ:Production
page
speak for themselves.

So to us, it appears all these issues are moot and pointless.

We are not distracted by issues like these, and feel you should not be
either. If everyone has a goal of producing the highest quality
colloidal silver possible at home, and we're already doing that, and
have the tests to prove it, and provide you the means to produce it
at the lowest price, why get caught up in other issues?

And we feel we've gone a step farther by providing lab tests that
prove the high quality of the collodial silver produced by our
generators, while the other sites are only offering speculations
about theories.

To us, if
all you need to spend is $59 for a complete kit that produces
nanoparticle colloidal silver and ionic silver. So then why spend more? The choice in production methods, therefore, is quite obvious to
us. We've used our method for years, sent it to labs for test, and
enjoyed great healthy success with it for years. And so have
thousands of customers! We hope it will be
your choice as well.

Does "stirring" the water, heating the water, or using a "magnetic plate" adequately
agitate the water?

This issue is touched on above. I have been asked this question by several customers. I have not attempted to agitate the water during production through a mechanical stirring method.
Nor have I heated the water, nor have I used a magnetic plate (I am not sure how a magnet agitates the water). So I can only rely on customer feedback comparing other methods
with using an air bubbler (found in our generators to agitate the water).

A customer recently wrote to tell me that he had been producing colloidal silver by using a mechanical
magnetic stirring device. He had purchased the components
from this site to agitate the water with an air pump bubbler. He overwhelmingly feels that agitating the water with an air pump bubbler produced a much better product, and one that remained stable over time.

I take issue with the "magnet" concept for this reason: As you
read above regarding the potential harm from introducing anything
foreign into the distilled water during production of colloidal
silver, I have reservations about putting any other metal that will
respond to a magnet during the production process into the water.
The magnet stirring process, as I understand it, requires that a
piece of iron is located in the bottom of the jar that is moved
during production to stir the water. Do we know that a piece of iron
will not behave a certain way when it is exposed to a low-voltage
electric current during production? Will it form compounds with the
silver? Will the iron being plating the silver rods? My intuitive
advice is to simply stay away from adding anything to the production
process.

Regarding agitating the water with heat, this is a method that of
course makes sense -- until the water cools down. Heat agitates the
water, and while the water is hot, small-particle silver colloids will be produced.
However, the water will cool down, and you'll be right back
producing high quantities of ionic silver and very little to no
small-particle silver. Yes, you could heat your water constantly for
the time it takes to make your colloidal silver, but it sounds to me
like it would just be more of a hassle and more dangerous a method.

Conclusively, it appears that agitating the water with an air bubbler sets up such a state of agitation that the end result with our method will produce a far more desirable end product.

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